Websites & SEO
CSS for web designers
A couple of years ago I was asked to "code" a website, which layout was designed by someone else. The layout was pretty, but it was clear the designer didn't have a clue on what lies under the hood of a site. Designer hadn't had a single thought for usability and accessibility. Everything, including the text on the little info boxes on the bottom of the page was supposed to be made with images. And the site was designed to be fixed width but also fixed height. It might have worked as a Flash site. Maybe. Fortunately in this case the person who had been asked to code the site was also capable o...
Dream the hallway
Do you ever have the sort of dream you know you are dreaming and can affect the events? The kind of a dream in which you know you can change what's happening and you can make adjustments to where you are and who you are with. Even maybe sometimes change the "actor" in the dream if she or he doesn't look like supposed? I do, sometimes. My dreams tend to be really imaginative, since I do have been blessed with a huge amount of imagination. So last night my feverish mind created a story, in which I knew I was dreaming. \ It was a long dream with a rather interesting story. Or maybe I should say...
My first website
While checking out some links for my new links page I wandered to Lealea Design blog and Lea Alcantara's entry about her first website (this post isn't available anymore). Yes I do remember mine too, though it was over 10 years ago, so the details are a bit mushy. 1998 I was 17 and I had quite recently found the miracles of Internet, including e-mail, IRC and obviously web. Okay, yes, I had been using some Internet services before, but only occasionally and I'd had my own PC, a little Intel machine with Windows 3.11, since I was 13. Back then having an Internet connection was still a rarity,...
Designer's dilemma
Lets imagine a web designer. She has a website, which includes blog, general info and contact form. The plan is to include a little portfolio too. The web designer is good at her job. She has been creating web sites since she was a teen and that was over 10 years ago. She knows CSS and can do some pretty neat tricks with it. She is a bit of a perfectionist. Mostly about her own work. She wants to feel pride about what she does and doesn't like to leave things half done. \ The web designer designs a new layout for her site. It's artsy and a bit different than her usual designs. There's much...
Zen
Years ago in my earlier blog I used to take the latest designs on css Zen Garden and review them. I'm not sure when the site has been updated the last time and if there's going to be any new designs on it. However I decided to take the last eight designs and make some quick notes about them. \ A Walk in the Garden is a quite simple and very green design. It's stylish and has that sort of a "hip designer touch" on it. Something like this could work great on a eco or a gardening related site, but as well as a site for some ecological brand. Kyoto Forest is one of the many Japan inspir...
Fix this
Maintaining a website sounds like an easy job. Especially if the job is to just copy and paste the texts someone else has written or to upload the pictures someone else has taken. Yes, it sounds like an easy job, but really it's not just mindless copy pasting. Usually the photos or texts need some work to be done on them before they can be posted on the website. Sometimes it's hard to understand what the person sending the texts or photos really want to be done with them. Or sometimes the requests are made in a way it's hard to tell if the person behind them has been really busy or if they...
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